{"id":26890,"date":"2022-12-19T23:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26890"},"modified":"2022-12-19T23:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T04:09:39","slug":"iem-katowice-2023-csgo-teams-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice-2023-csgo-teams-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"IEM Katowice 2023 CS:GO teams announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first S-Tier <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike betting guide\">Counter-Strike<\/a> event for 2023 will be <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/electronic-sports-league\/intel-extreme-masters\/\" title=\"Intel Extreme Masters Series betting guide\">Intel Extreme Masters<\/a> Katowice in Poland at Spodek Arena, and the 24 invited teams have been announced by ESL, with eight gaining direct invites and 16 gaining play-in spots. <\/p>\n<p>Three of the eight direct invites were already confirmed, as FaZe Clan won IEM Cologne, Team Vitality won <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/esl-pro-league\/\" title=\"ESL Pro League betting guide\">ESL Pro League Season 16<\/a>, and Outsiders won the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-rio-major\/\" title=\"IEM Rio Major betting guide\">IEM Rio Major<\/a> in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>As well as those three direct invites, there were two confirmed play-in invitations going to Fnatic, who won the Elisa Masters Espoo, and Permitta, who won the ESL Polish Championship Autumn. <\/p>\n<p>The other five direct invites to IEM Katowice have come as no surprise to many, with Heroic, Team Liquid, Natus Vincere, MOUZ and G2 Esports all earning their spot due to consistent performances throughout 2022. <\/p>\n<p>As for the other 14 play-in invitations, six spots were given out to teams based on their overall world rankings, and the final eight were handed to teams based on their region-specific ranking, with three going to European teams, two to North American teams, and one each to South American, Asian and Oceanic organisations. <\/p>\n<p>One big name that is missing from either of the invitation lists is that of two-time IEM Katowice champions Astralis, <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/copenhagen-flames-defeat-astralis-in-final-of-cct-central-europe-series-4\/\" title=\"CCT Central Europe Series 4 result\">who had to win either CCT Central Europe Series 4<\/a> or Elisa Masters Espoo at the back end of the year to stay in contention.<\/p>\n<p>FaZe Clan have opened as the early favourite at $5.00 with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The direct invites for IEM Katowice are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flexLists\">\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li><strong>Outsiders<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Team Liquid<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>FaZe Clan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Natus Vincere<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li><strong>Team Vitality<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MOUZ<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>G2 Esports<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Heroic<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The invites for the play-in are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flexLists\">\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li><strong>Fnatic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ENCE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Permitta<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spirit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>FURIA<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Complexity<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MIBR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IHC<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li><strong>OG<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Grayhound<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sprout<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ninjas in Pyjamas<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Evil Geniuses<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloud9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>paiN Gaming<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>BIG<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HERE ARE YOUR 24 TEAMS INVITED TO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> KATOWICE 2023! \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oDPQT4mZCW\">https:\/\/t.co\/oDPQT4mZCW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8Skso5nLA\">pic.twitter.com\/T8Skso5nLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Intel\u00ae Extreme Masters (@IEM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IEM\/status\/1604894758970826753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight CS:GO teams have gained direct entry to IEM Katowice 2023, with the other 16 getting play-in invitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[508,2890,11,2141,1081,46],"class_list":["post-26890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo-iem","tag-csgo","tag-iem","tag-iem-katowice","tag-intel-extreme-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26890"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26907,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26890\/revisions\/26907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}